The title says it all. Lakers should have won another game that they threw away. Overshadowed i this contest was that Kobe became 5th on the all time scoring list passing his former teammate Shaq. Kobe came out of the gates firing on all cylinders scoring 15 points in the first quarter and having 24 by the half. But Kobe only finished with 28 points. Lakers ranked near the bottom of the league in 3rd quarter scoring (Credit Jacob Shackelford) Lakers only scored 19 points and lost the lead they had at the half. It's been a theme this year for the Lakers, lead at the half and then lose it in the last quarter. As always here is the stats breakdown. Kobe lead all scorers with 28 points. Pau had 16 and Bynum had 20 to round out the "real" big 3.
Story of the year and probably the season for the Lakers has been bench scoring. Young Andrew Goudelock led the team with 9 this game. I don't know about you guys but I miss the good ole days of the bench mob scoring 30-40 points a game with Farmer, Vujacic, and Lamar. Safe to say the Lakers still need to find a way to trade for a point guard or just someone that can pick up some of the scoring slack. Overall I'm very disappointed with this loss. Too many opportunities not tajen and the Lakers lose another one. They should be 3-0 on this road trip but instead they fall to 1-2.
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